Past Scholars - 2004

Mr. Dare Ajibade
Biological Sciences
"Study of the Effects and Mechanisms of Vesicant Toxicity in a Mouse Keratinacyte Culture Model"
Professor Michael Shakarjian

Mr. Nicholas Amon
Computer Science
"A Dynamic Resource Usage View of Object Oriented Programs. Case Study: Java Programming Language"
Professor Barbara Ryder

Mr. Chad Austino
History
"Political Propaganda in Early Ptolemaic Eygpt"
Professor Thomas Figueira

Mr. Niruban Balachandran
Anthropology and Psychology
"The Evolutionary Psychology of Organizational Hiring Decisions: The Role of Fluctuating Symmetry"
Professor Lee Cronk

Ms. Mariya Barch
Chemistry
"Conformational Dynamics of DNA Hairpin Loops"
Professor Edward Castner, Jr.

Mr. Jonathan Berk
Anthropology
"Dietary Inferences from Dental Microwear Analysis of Modern Human Australian Skulls"
Professor Susan Anton

Ms. Nikita Bharatia
Cell Biology and Neuroscience
"Biological Effects and Potential Health Benefits of Phytochemicals on Eukaryotic Cells and Tissue"
Professor Dunne Fong

Ms. Samantha Blatt
Anthropology
"Prehistoric Cannibalism in the Cook Islands: Burning Modification of Human Skeletal Remains from Ana Manuku (MAN-84), Mangaia"
Professor Susan Anton

Mr. Ronn Blitzer
Jewish Studies
"The Behavioral Cycle of the Jewish People"
Professor Maurice Elias

Mr. Sheldon Bond
Sociology
"Styles of Bootstraps: African Americans and the Republican Party"
Professor John Leggett

Ms. Tatiana Borissova
Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
"Stability Measurements of Proteins Using Hydrogen/Deuterium Exchange, NMR Spectroscopy and Mass Spectrometry"
Professor Gaetano Montelione

Ms. Katie Bourgault
Puerto Rican and Hispanic Caribbean Studies
"New Community Performances: How Race, Class, and Globalization (Re)Work Identity in Lewiston, Maine"
Professor Ana Ramos-Zayas

Ms. Kelly Brady
Psychology
"The Role of Environmental Complexity in the Incentive Disengagement Cycle"
Professor Charles Flaherty

Ms. Kelly Burger
Psychology
"A Comparison of Food US and Social Opportunity US on Ethanol Drinking in Rats"
Professor Arthur Tomie

Ms. Kelly Burke
Cell Biology and Neuroscience
"Psychoneuroimmunology-Effects of Immune Responses and Cytokines on Cognitive and Emotional Behavior"
Professor Nathan Hart

Ms. Kristina Caggiano
Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
"Selenocysteine Incorporation: Structure and Function of SBP2"
Professor Paul Copeland

Mr. Andrew Carton
Psychology
"The Effects of Supervisor Proximity and Salience on Stress, Distraction, and Perceptions of Task Performance and Evaluation"
Professor John Aiello

Mr. Glenn Christofides
Political Science
"The Sepulcher of Rule: Civil Liberties, Natural Rights and American Constitutional Interpretation"
Professor Gordon Schochet

Mr. Adam Cohen
Cognitive Science
"At the Crossroads of Theory of Mind and Moral Reasoning: Intention"
Professor Alan Leslie

Mr. David Cohen
Political Science
"God of the Universe, the University, and Beyond.How God Can Be Most Glorified During the College Years"
Professor Wilson Carey McWilliams

Ms. Beatrice Cortes
Anthropology and Latin American Studies
"Outward Migration in the Yucatan: Globalization in Yax'ha Mexico"
Professor Ana Ramos-Zayas

Ms. Jana Cram
Political Science
"Walking on Water: The Relationship Between Government Officials, Organized Groups and the Media during the Chesapeake Bay Restoration Policy Making Process"
Professor Beth Leech

Ms. Diana Cuello
Psychology
"The Empty Chair: Usurpation and Invalidation in the Life of Vincent van Gogh"
Professor George Atwood

Mr. Patrick Devenny
History
"Failure in the Golden Age: American Foreign Policy and the 1956 Hungarian Revolution"
Professor David Foglesong

Ms. Kate Drahos
Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
"Protein Expression and Folding Optimization for High-Throughput Proteomics"
Professor Gaetano Montelione

Ms. Alexandra Drakakis
Art History
"A Modernist's Vision of the Southwest: Georgia O'Keefe's Quest for a National Art"
Professor Carla Yanni

Ms. Jessica Early
Biological Sciences
"Characterization of the Activin Pathway in Drosophila Melanogaster"
Professor Richard Padgett

Mr. Ezra Fischer
History
"The Corpses in the Copse of Murder, Marriage, and Modernity: Understanding the Hall-Mills Case"
Professor T. J. Jackson Lears

Mr. Richard Fischetti
History
"Political Struggle and the Emergence of a Modern State Structure in Florence"
Professor James Masschaele

Ms. Malikah Fulton
Africana Studies
"W.E.B. DuBois, a Thrust in the Third World Liberation Movement"
Professor Edward Ramsamy

Ms. Emma Garrett
Women's and Gender Studies
"Bearing Stories: Beloved's Communities of Reading and Knowledge"
Professor Harriet Davidson

Ms. Sarah Grubb
Philosophy
"Four Dimensionalist Solutions to Problems of Personal Identity, Composition, and Survival"
Professor Dean Zimmerman

Mr. Yehuduh Hampel
History
"Anglomen and American Jacobins: American National Identity in the 1790's"
Professor David Foglesong

Ms. Sachelle Heavens
Psychology
"The Political Correctness (PC) Scale: Measuring Lying to Appear Unprejudiced"
Professor Lee Jussim

Ms. Melodie Hodge
Sociology
"The Minority Majority: An Analysis of Well-Being among Hindus, Buddists, and Muslims"
Professor Deborah Carr

Mr. Ryan Horvath
Biological Sciences
"Characterization of N-Methyl-D-Aspartate (NMDA) Receptor Expression and Function in Embryonic Day 18 Primary Rat Cortical Neurons"
Professor Sidney Auerbach and Dr. Douglas MacDonald

Ms. Laura Hughes
History
""Lord, Thy will be done, thou art better to mee than sonnes and daughters, though I value them above gold and jewells:" Parent-Child Relationsin Seventeenth Century England"
Professor Alastair Bellany

Ms. Portia Hunt
East Asian Languages
"Sustainable Development in China: Toward a Green Future"
Professor Richard Wilson

Ms. Shwetha Iyer
Public Health
"The Short Term Effects of Highly Active Anitretroviral Therapy on Patients at the Eric B. Chandler Health Center"
Professor Dona Schneider

Ms. Christiana Jackson
Theater Arts
"My Life as Y"
Professor Marshall Jones III

Mr. Jeffrey Julio
Evolutionary Anthropology
"Implications of Signaling Theory for the Household Division of Labor by Gender"
Professor Lee Cronk

Mr. Joseph Kaminski
Political Science
"The Authoritarian Personality Reconsidered"
Professor Stephen Bronner

Ms. Shanta Kanukollu
Psychology and Public Health
"Enhancing Addiction Treatment through Cultural Sensitivity"
Professor Shirley Smoyak

Ms. Alicia Kim
English and History
"The Holy Sonnets of John Donne: An Idolatrous Performance of Wit"
Professor Ann Coiro

Ms. Teresa Kuo
Psychology
"Autoshaping Induces Ethanol Drinking in Non-Deprived Rats: Evidence of Long-Term Retention But No Induction of Ethanol Preference"
Professor Arthur Tomie

Ms. Sara Lampert
History
""Greatest Artists of the Race:" Race, Culture and Performance in Black America"
Professor Ann Fabian

Ms. Caitlin Lange
History
"Dead on Arrival: The Blasket Islands of West Kerry"
Professor John Gillis

Ms. Rebecca Leibowitz
Psychology
"Teaching Children Amidst a War on Terror: An Exploration of the American-Jewish and Israeli Education Systems' Response to Terrorism"
Professor Maurice Elias

Ms. Jennifer Lemke
English
"Surviving the Sexual Holocaust: A Study of Women and Mental Illness in 20th Century American Literature"
Professor Martin Gliserman

Ms. Dora Lendvai
Political Science
"Integration by Constitution? The European Constitution in Making"
Professor Jan Kubik

Ms. Reka Letso
Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
"Use of Gene Silencing to Examine Post-Transcriptional Regulation of the c-Myc Proto-Oncogene"
Professor Gary Brewer

Ms. Teresa Liaw
Psychology
"Duration of Reinstatement and the Persistence of Retention at Six Months"
Professor Carolyn Rovee-Collier

Ms. Eryn Loeb
Women's & Gender Studies
"Sisters are D.I.Y.-ing It for Themselves: The Production and Consumption of Feminist Print Media"
Professor Ed Cohen

Ms. Aiyan Lu
Chemistry and Physics
"Testing the Limits of von Weizsacker Kinetic Energy Functional"
Professor Kieron Burke

Mr. Rahul Malhotra
Math
"Proof-Like Reasoning of Quantified Statements by Middle Schoolers"
Professor Lara Alcock

Mr. Neil Masangkay
Genetics
"Expression and Function of Polypeptido O-GalNac Tranfserase Genes in Drosophila melanogaster"
Professor Kenneth Irvine

Ms. Nancy Matlack
Africana Studies
"Mixed-Race Middlemen: Coloureds and the New South Africa"
Professor Edward Ramsamy

Ms. Beth Miller
Evolutionary Anthropology
"Analysis of Buttons and Buckles from Oudepost I, South Africa and their Relevance to Social Structure"
Professor Carmel Schrire

Mr. Mark Miller
Economics
"The Gold Standard and the Cost of Borrowing in British India, 1870-1913"
Professor Hugh Rockoff

Ms. Gail Morgado
Political Science
"Cuban-American Relations and its Role in a Post-Castro Regime"
Professor Paul McCartney

Ms. Vidhya Munnamalai
Genetics
"GLR-1 Forms Glutamate-Channels Similar to Glutamate Receptors"
Professor Christopher Rongo

Ms. Diana Nagy
Psychology
"Modern Ethnic and Racial Discrimination: How It Is Observed and Studied in Present Day Society"
Professor Maurice Elias

Ms. Lauren Oleykowski
Political Science
"Does Credit Equal Power? The Political Lives of Women Recipients of Microcredit"
Professor Beth Leech

Mr. Peter O'Neill
Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
"Biophysical Measurements of Brain Tumor Invasion"
Professor Ramsey Foty

Ms. Ksenia Orlova
Biomedical Engineering
"Genomics of Murine Stem Cell Differentiation into Functional Hepatocytes"
Professor Martin Yarmush

Ms. Efe Osagie
American Studies and Africana Studies
"The Birth of Black Judaism in America"
Professor Michael Rockland

Ms. Sheena Persaud
Art History
"The Architecture of a Southern Plantation from Conception to Restoration: Nottoway Plantation"
Professor Carla Yanni

Ms. Dawn Piarulli
Psychology
"The Characterization of Sensory-Motor and Cognitive Behavioral Phenotypes of the PEA-15 Knockout Mouse"
Professor Louis Matzel

Ms. Emily Rice
Sociology
"International Adoptions in America: Parents' Decisions and Experiences In and After the Adoption Process"
Professor Ann Parelius

Ms. Ayelet Rosen
Biological Sciences
"Investigating the Protein-Protein Interactions Between beta-COP and PSD-95"
Professor Bonnie Firestein

Ms. Elizabeth Royzman
Art History and Visual Arts
"Soviet Social Realism: The Humanist Photography of Lyalya Kuznetsova"
Professor Jane Sharp and Professor Diane Neumaier

Mr. Nicholas Ruglio-Kormann
Psychology
"Infants' Perception of Causality"
Professor Alan Leslie

Ms. Yelena Rybalova
History
"The Pursuit of Contraceptive Innovation in the Twentieth Century"
Professor James Reed

Ms. Kathleen Schramm
Psychology
"A Twin Study of Linguistic and Nonlinguistic Development"
Professor Karin Stromswold

Ms. Dorothy Schwartz
Art History
"Hannah Hoch and Barbara Kruger: Parallels in the Deconstruction of Visual Culture"
Professor Joan Marter

Ms. Zina Semenovskaya
Philosophy
"Is There A Fate Worse Than Death? Examining Quality of Life and Its Place in Trauma"
Dr. Robert Lavery

Mr. Rahul Sharma
History
"FDA Discourse on Blood Safety in the Post-AIDS Era"
Professor Keith Wailoo

Mr. Vladimir Shifrin
Anthropology
"Supraorbital Torus Formation in Terms of Vault Shape"
Professor Susan Anton

Mr. Plinio Silva
Biological Sciences
"Towards Testing the Rold of TRP Channels in Mechanosensory Transduction in C. Elegans"
Professor Monica Driscoll

Ms. Rebecca Smerek
Antrhropology
"Focality in Lakota Kin-Classification"
Professor Warren Shapiro

Mr. Yair Solan
Psychology
"Recognition of Adult Emotional Expression and Eye Direction by Five-Month-Old Infants"
Professor Arlene Walker-Andrews

Mr. Gavin Stewart
Communication
"From the Cradle to the Senate - A Communicative Look at Youth and Politics"
Professor Stacey Connaughton

Mr. Michael Tobin
Cell Biology and Neuroscience
"Protein-Protein Interactions During Receptor Mediated Endocytosis in C. Elegans"
Professor Barth Grant

Mr. Matthew Tornese
History
"India-Pakistan: Success or Failure? The Nixon Administration's Policies Regarding the India-Pakistan War of 1971"
Professor William O'Neill

Ms. Ashlee Van't Veer
Cell Biology and Neuroscience
"Signaling Pathways Mediating BDNFs Effect on DNA Synthesis in Oligodendrocyte Progenitor Cells"
Professor Cheryl Dreyfus

Ms. Alina Zeleznova
Psychology
"An Examination of the Cross-Cultural Implications of Parenting Styles on Children"
Professor Maurice Elias

January Graduates

Ms. Jenna Caporaso
Biochemistry
"The Molten Globular State of Ribonuclease A"
Professor Peter Kahn

Ms. Monique Tanna
Cell Biology and Neuroscience
"Characterization of Erythropoietin Receptors in the Central Nervous System and in Spinal Cord
Injury"
Professor Wise Young